Comments on: TSPY

By: I’d Like To Thank… « Midnight Musings

I’d Like To Thank… « Midnight Musings — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:31:29 +0000

[...] Alvin Trusty at Alvin’s Educational Technology Blog for his TSPY (Time Saved Per Year) tips and tricks! Aside from Taste of Tech, this was the first blog I ever [...]

By: Taste of Tech » Almost Just Like

Taste of Tech » Almost Just Like — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:24:27 +0000

[...] about 20 minutes. If I do this type of thing once a week (a conservative estimate), that’s a TSPY of -34.67. Granted, I’ll get more efficient at this. Different isn’t necessarily better [...]

By: Alvin’s Educational Technology Blog » Efficiency Tip #8 - Windows-D

Alvin’s Educational Technology Blog » Efficiency Tip #8 - Windows-D — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:29:16 +0000

[...] This one is just for Debbie. She says she never closes her browser. That means her desktop is always covered with that browser (and email program and palm software) and when she really needs to get to something on that desktop… it takes a while to reduce all the windows. [...]

By: John Schinker

John Schinker — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:16:04 +0000

Xerox invented everything.

By: alvin

alvin — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:37:43 +0000

Best line from Triumph of the Nerds – Steve Jobs quoting Picasso – “Good artists copy. Great artists steal.” When he said this he was talking about how Bill Gates had stolen all the ideas for Windows from the Mac OS. The real irony is that Apple stole many of their original GUI ideas (and even some employees) from Xerox PARC.